“I really feel performed proper now”
Ari Lennox has shared her unhappiness over her contract with document label Dreamville – which is owned by J. Cole – by saying she feels “performed proper now” by them and desires out of it.
In an Instagram reel revealed on Tuesday (October 29) – which has since been deleted – Lennox aired her grievances over her alleged mistreatment by Dreamville, an imprint of Interscope Data. She spoke overtly about what has been her “remaining straw” that’s led to her wanting out of her contract.
“I attempt to do issues the precise means, and no one takes me severely,” she stated within the 18-minute clip. “I’m attempting to be respectful, however I really feel performed proper now… I simply want I had a label that cared, that might need to defend me. I want I had a label that was out right here attempting to elucidate why I would like commercial for my document.”
“I simply need to be launched, and it’s simply that straightforward,” she continues. “And I’m uninterested in being good, and I used to be attempting to do every little thing the precise means, however now I’m pissed. This was my remaining straw.”
Shortly after, she shared an Instagram Story outlining her frustrations: “Interscope and Dreamville have been taking part in with me all month and I’m so exhausted. I’m so uninterested in individuals treating me like they’re sorry for me and like I’m the face of psychological well being.”
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The latter sentence is probably going referring to her newest single ‘Smoke’, the place she opens up about her psychological well being struggles, launched earlier this month (October 18).
“I’m okay and I’ve by no means been happier. What I don’t like is being signed and lied to and manipulated. Not one individual at these labels ever knew methods to market or defend me. Y’all don’t know the half. Fixed let down and neglect. This business stuff won’t ever be for me,” Lennox concluded.
In 2022, Lennox introduced that her ‘Age/Intercourse/Location’ tour can be her remaining one. Nonetheless, in late-2023, Lennox was added to rapper Rod Wave’s Nostalgia tour, which, per Vibe, she described as “the worst tour of my fucking life”, including that the viewers didn’t reply kindly to her units – one viewers member additionally threw a waterbottle at her throughout a efficiency.
“Bitch, I’ll fuck you up!” she lashed out on the viewers member. “Don’t you ever disrespect a good looking Black lady on the stage like that! I’ma fucking fuck you up.”
Earlier this month, J. Cole launched a brand new single titled ‘Port Antonio’, which referenced the notorious Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud earlier this yr.